St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-22
STIRRING UP SINNERS.
Jamestown Boasts Minister Who Con-
ducts Religious Service 965 Days
in the Year.
His Success Phenomenal-He Expects to
Produce Social; Political and Re-
ligious Revolution.
His Faithful Lieutenants. Known as
the praying Band.'' Aid Him
in His Conquests.
The Women of the Party Frequently
Conduct Services With Wonder.
fully Telling Effect.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
JAMESTOWN, OAK, Jan. 21.-Rev. b
5. Taylor, who was lately appointed to the
passionate of the Methodist church of thia
city, is conducting series of revival meet
ingS, which has already excited deep i'll.
terest and promises to be productive of far
reaching consequences. Parties interested
IN the movement are not modest or back
ward in their claims, but confidently pre-
dict that before the end of the church year
they will have accomplished a social, politi-
cal and religious revolution in this city, and
as the first great cause of this proposed and
anticipated upheaval they designate Mr..
Taylor and his phalanx of trusty and
efficient co-workers. Mr.. Taylor is man
OF rich experience, both secular and relig-
ious, and, although comparatively young
man. has preached in number of states
and been missionary in South America
Previous to his appointment here he was
stationed at Storm Lake, Ia, where he was
remarkably successful. as well as in tho
neighboring towns to which he was calleGs
He has gathered about him number OF
faithful lieutenants, who call themselves
the praying band" and follow him in his
MINISTERIAL BIGRATIONS.
They are well known in this city and ara
largely instrumental in creating the excite,
At the Grand Forks conference Mr.. Taylor
was present and addressed the ministers
with an eloquence that electrified the
whole body and caused the papers of that
city to designate him as 1.-The cyclone OF
eloquence." In his first sermon in this city
he startled the church with the announce
ment that he proposed to make his pastor
ate here one continuous revival meeting,
and that services would be held 365 days in
the year. This promise he has fulfilled so
far, and with a result which is little less
than wonderful. He is an intellectual
man. a preacher of unusual eloquence and
and is the possessOr of deep bass voice
which easily fills the opera rink, hall
capable of seating 1000, in which he fire.
quently holds services. Personally he has a
slender, student-like appearance. with an
evident disregard for the ordinary events Of
life, and a consuming energy to prosecute
the work to which he has devoted his
thread of existence on this earth. That he
is in earnest has never been questioned,
His efforts here have
STIRRED UP THE DOUBTERS
and unbelieverS, endowed with renewed
vigOr the apathetic members of the congre-
cation and engendered newspaper discus
sion, editorial and contributional, that is
probably unprecedented in the history Of
Northern Dakota. And vet the members
of the band say that the work has only
commenced; that they are only firing their
small guns, and, with species Of defiance,
eXclaim: 1--WE will storm this town for
God" During the past two weeks Taylor
and his followers have been stirring up a
deep religious feeling at Casselton. and are
now about to move Old Fargo. One attache
of the travelling exhorters is Brother Hiltz,
alias the Cow Boy Preacher" or mo
body's Darling" He has been, he claimse
professional tough and Western
FREEBOOTER FOR YEARS.
but now brings thunderOuS invocation for
divine assistance through his erst copper
lined larYnX, and makes the trembling sin
ner wonder where all the enthusiasm and
seeming earnestneSs come from. The
women of the party are equally as earnest.
They frequently conduct the services by
themselves, and with telling effect Tay-
lOr'S meetings, in q crowded house, with
dim, uncertain lights, led by the rising and
falling voices of the speakers, amid the
broken walls of women, the unconscious
surrender of unmlstakable emotions of an
gulsh or qualification, the lowered heads of
the congregation and the intense strain of
expectation, throw over the room the spirit
of incarnation and strongly recall the eX-
preston of an African voudOO scene, still
occasionally witnessed in the negro quar-
tiers of the black sections of the South.
Whatever may be said the man Taylor is
agitating class never yet affected in this
new country, and attacking immortality
with force novel; yet powerful in its re-
suits. His unaided efforts-at the start-in
making an issue of the intemperance of
this city will probably bring two factions in
the field the coming election-license and
anti-license.